New Existence Salubrious Volition Kill You

Living inwards a salubrious surroundings is the best agency to ensure that you lot give-up the ghost young. That may audio counter-intuitive merely it seems to move borne out yesteryear the Geographic Data Lab's novel Access to Healthy Assets in addition to Hazards map.

The Access to Healthy Assets in addition to Hazards map shows the to the lowest degree in addition to well-nigh salubrious places to alive inwards Great Britain. The Access to Healthy Assets in addition to Hazards (AHAH) is a novel index for measurement how ‘healthy’ neighbourhoods are based on the lineament of the environment, for instance local air pollution. The index all the same likewise considers the ease of access to wellness services in addition to the availability of 'unhealthy' retail outlets, such equally fast nutrient restaurants in addition to pubs.

You tin cease report the AHAH map inwards exceptional on the interactive map version at CDRC Maps.

The AHAH is an interesting novel agency to assess how salubrious an surroundings genuinely is. For example, many people mean value of the countryside equally beingness a salubrious house to live. However the AHAH index rates many rural neighborhoods really poorly because of their relatively piteous access to wellness assist services.


The AHAH map on the left in addition to the ONS life expectancy map on the correct

There could all the same move a flaw inwards the AHAH methodology. If nosotros compare the AHAH map alongside the Office for National Statistics life expectancy maps many areas which are shown to move salubrious on the AHAH map convey a really depression life expectancy. On the life expectancy map you lot tin cease run across that the Scottish Central Belt, South Wales in addition to the M62 corridor inwards the due north of England all convey areas alongside roughly of the lowest life expectancy inwards Great Britain. On the AHAH map these areas grade amid roughly of the well-nigh salubrious places to live.

Correlation is non causation merely the AHAH map does appear to propose that living inwards a salubrious expanse could kill you.
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